Envelop-sealer.



M. PANAGABKO.

ENVELOP SEALER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 27 l-9l8.

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MICHAEL PANAGABKC, or BENITO, MANITOBA, CANADA. I

ENVELOP-SEALER. l

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 7,1919.

Application tiled February 27, 1918. Serial No. 219522.

To all whom it mayl concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL PANAGABKO, residing at Benito, in the Province of Manitoba and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain .new and useful Improvements in Envelop- Sealers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to envelop sealers and has special reference to a device which will fold and seal open envelops.

One object of the invention is to improve the general construction of devices of this character.

A second object of the invention is to provide a simple device of this character of economical construction and particularly adapted for use in places where the number of envelops to be sealed is larger than can be, conveniently sealed by hand while not sufficient to employ an expensive machine.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be hereinafter apparent the invention consists in general of certain `novel 'details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, acters of reference indicate like parts several views, and

Figure 1 is a plan view of the envelop sealer, the end portions being broken away, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail the gearing.

Fig. 5 is a detail section through the moistenng roll.

In carrying out the objects of this invention there is provided a casing having a floor or base 10 `and side Walls 11. Between the side walls 11 is located a platform or table 12 which is surrounded by a traveling belt 13 passing over rollers 14 at each end of the machine. These rollers 14 are journaled in the side walls 11 and on one side of the rollers is a belt pulley 15, the pulley being keyed to the journal 16 of this roller. Also carried by the journal'16 is a gear.wheel 17 which meshes with lan idler gear 19 meshing in turn witha gear 18 on a shaft 20 journaled in the sides 11. On this shaft 20 is a beveled gear 21 which meshes with a beveled gear 22 xed on the shaft 23 journaled in suitable bearings like charin the side elevation showing v24 lsupported lon the casing. 23 is located the moistener which consists of On the shaft a cylindrical felt body 25 held between end plates 26 secured to the shaft by set screws 27. Passing through the end plates 26 and into the body 25 'are screw pins 28 which thus hold the body to revolve with the end plates. This belt moistener is located so as to rub against one side wall 11 and extending from the other side wall 11 to a point adjacent the side wall against which the moistener rubs is a guide and guard plate consisting of a horizontal portion 29 and an upturned flange 30, the flange being in .spaced relation to said side. On the extension 31 which carries the idle gear 18' is a roller 32 pressing against the belt 13. Adjacent the rollers 32 and 14 is an angularly disposed deflector plate 33. In the operation of the device the envelops are inserted at one end of the machine in the position indicated in dotted lines at E in Fig. 3 and in Fig. 2. As the shaft 16 is revolved, as by a belt 34 leading to a suitable drive wheel (not shown) the envelops will pass along lwith their flaps turned up so that the moistener will rub over the gummed fields o-n these iiaps, the moistener being frotated by means of the gearing described. Now as the envelop strikes the delector plate 33 after passing the roller the top end of the flap will be turned quickly down to pass beneath the shaft 23 until it is practically horizontal. Further passage of the envelop between the rollers 32 and 14 presses the flap firmly on the body of the envelop and consequently causes adhesion of the gummed field to the body of the envelop.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that many minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material principles thereof. It is not therefore desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described but it is wished to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

In a device of the kind described, a table, a belt constituting an envelop carrier and having its` upper portion extending over the top of said table, belt rollers at the ends of said table over hich said belt is trained, frame sides supporting said table and belt rollers, a guide and guard plate attached to one of said frame sides and extending toward the other side, an upturned flange on v said plate in closely spaced relation tothe pl'ate at the delivery end of said livery end of the table, a horizontally disposed Inoistening roll positioned to engage Ul the upturned flap of an renvelop on said belt and to force the sanie against the said frame and means to drive said moistening roll.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

MICHAEL PANAGABKO.

Copies, of this patent may he obtained for fiveY cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Vlashfington,V D. C. 

